Surgeons, what was your "OH CR*P" moment?

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[@misaudark6338]

Didn't think I'd hear the "Swamps of dagobah" story in this lmao

[@uchytjes10]

Swamps of Dagobah, the jolly rancher, and the coconut Fleshlight. All legendary horror posts.

[@misaudark6338]

​@@uchytjes10 Yep... not to mention, poop knife and poop scissors.... botfly girl aswell

[@BabyyiJustwanaDancee]

Lmao same when it started I instantly knew

[@ericasnow9022]

Oh...no...

[@nannostanfr]

Timestamp???

[@Michalosnup]

Basic rule: Never lie to your doctor or lawyer

[@PrimeCypher]

Better rule: Do not lie to a professional. In any field.

[@raetemple9167]

​@@PrimeCypherDepends on the field tbh

[@PrimeCypher]

@@raetemple9167 Tell me one professional where its a good idea.

[@skylerlightning4620]

@@PrimeCypher Any profession that have keep people calm that know people has died and need keep them calm to prevent more death.

[@transsnack]

Tell the cops nothing, tell the EMTs everything.

[@deredd04]

Story 13. Your narration did do the story justice. I felt it when you said “GODLESS BASTARD” when the op reached for the empty box of peppermint oil.

[@acatnamedm4529]

Dang it, DO NOT EAT before surgery. You can die. In eye surgery, you can go blind if you don't die. EDIT: you did a really good job with the medical terminology

[@DelphineDenton]

I get that they don't want to put patients completely out during eye surgery, but paralytics would have been a huge improvement in that moment.

[@Kittygameplayz]

patient: yup uhuh yup doc yup i didnt eat! doc: ok doc: good thing you didnt because otherwise you'll throw up during the procedure and food might get stuck inside you! thank gosh you didn't eat! patient: doc... i have something to tell you... (cut to the doctor screaming *WHAT?!?!*)

[@danniellesloane]

I worked in a hospital (admin, not a nurse or dr) I remember a young girl almost dying during my time there because her father felt bad for her because she was hungry. He stuck her food without informing anyone, even though she was nil by mouth, and she almost aspirated during surgery. It was pretty traumatic for the staff that had to deal with the emergency in surgery, and the nurses doing her after care

[@SkyFyre2435]

If this was in the US, I wouldn't be surprised if that patient later tried to sue the eye surgeon for malpractice.

[@lemax6865]

@@DelphineDenton If you don't put someone fully under, you don't use paralytics. Paralytics mean the patient will be unable to breathe, so you have to intubate.

[@paragonca9736]

This was the wrong video to listen to over my lunch break.

[@landon2plants]

Yes

[@edenofeve]

Literally doing the same thing and he lost me at 13:00

[@RedK5]

@@edenofevethat’s where I ate breakfast at. Still surprised she’s alive

[@ididitoutofspite986]

​@@edenofevei almost threw up

[@Toot.95]

Right. The added details of after birth & maple syrup was a tad much 🫴🏼

[@LisaVGG]

Tell the narrator that his telling of the Swamps of Dagobah story was done justice, cause my lord that must’ve been hard to read even a second time

[@appleslice4412]

I wasn't expecting the "Swamps of Dagobah" story to be snuck in

[@sydspuppets]

which one was that? ;;

[@sydspuppets]

nevermind

[@SkyFyre2435]

I heard "one of the greatist reddit comments in history," and then "pararectal abscess" and immediately knew it was the Swamps of Dagobah.

[@stingmon93]

that story was literally a "oh Holy Crap." moment.

[@darkstarr984]

I have a vague idea that poor woman was in absolute hell because I’ve had a pelvic abscess that I needed major abdominal surgery for, and in the week leading up to it, I would have all of about 30 minutes, 30 minutes after taking 100 mg Tramadol and 1000 mg Tylenol, in which I was able to get up, walk to the bathroom, downstairs to the kitchen, back upstairs to wash and flush my drains, and then back to my bed to lay back down, before the pain started climbing up to where I was sobbing and almost unable to move again. Basically going from an 8 to a 6, then back to 8. I would repeat that process every 4 to 6 hours, and finally my PCP called my surgeon and sent me to the hospital because it turns out that much pain is actually a really bad sign and the fact I was taking painkillers before getting my wound vac changed was masking my fevers from visiting nurses.

[@slc1161]

The reality is, despite all the education health care workers receive, every single person has a bit of variance in their vessels, organs, skin, etc. We say it’s an art backed by science.

[@permanentvisitor2460]

That's why medicine acknowledges that it's a practice. Nothing is standard, so it's just as much art as science.

[@lpfan4491]

Science effectively is an art. A highly restricted art, but still. You have to always be on the look out for irregular data that could be an indication of undiscovered layers to the mechanisms at play and sometimes you even have to get creative to even figure out how a translates to b and how you can potentially invoke that reaction manually to arrive at c.

[@transsnack]

The joys of a wet science. Anything related to life has rules, but a lot of exceptions.

[@dragoncsorceressofawesomne5721]

Story 11 is now the latest reason i am never getting pregnant. This uterus is closed for business

[@kirbyman1295]

Same, oh also because I’m a guy

[@ToastyNoneofyourbusiness]

Lol same

[@Allantitan]

Story 11 is just one of the reasons why I’m glad I’m a guy

[@tracywilliams7523]

12:05 hey, I'm not a chronic drug abuser....I just have endometriosis where NOTHING touches my pain except anesthesia....doctors tend to think I'm an addict 💀 .....nope, just an incurable disease 😭😭

[@janerecluse4344]

They *can* D&C that tissue out for you. There are treatments, just nobody talks about them because misogyny thinks women are meant to suffer. Don't accept it.

[@ismae-rienne4991]

For some levity: Im a woman. When i had surgery done to remove my gallbladder, i had the all male team. They kept referring to themselves as the Chippendales

[@ivettegutierreztorres3211]

And were they cute or hunky?

[@ismae-rienne4991]

@@ivettegutierreztorres3211 yep

[@TheNormExperience]

The patient needs 5 CC’s! **Out walk the Cholecystectomy Chippendales** 😂

[@el_pro_man]

somebody tell 32 that, being underage, that signature was invalid legally speaking, and he can sue for god knows how much, asuming it hasn't been that long, and assuming the signature wasn't a parent's

[@ivettegutierreztorres3211]

We went in for a hysterectomy ( getting the uterus out) of a 35ish patient, an hour and a half surgery), sonogram said myomatosis ( bumps of muscle in the uterine wall) , we open up, and it's cancer all over the abdominal cavity, about to close the bladder and the colon, 10 hours later, we had cleared out what we could. Thanks to that the patient lived longer, and more comfortably

[@slc1161]

People don’t understand about the food and fluid restrictions are for their safety.

[@darkstarr984]

Yeah. It’s even stupider than me being so convinced I would become addicted to heroin I refused to use a pain pump after major abdominal surgery. Using extreme painkillers like that as intended genuinely helps people recover, like how not eating or drinking before a surgery keeps them from aspirating.

[@slc1161]

My first oh crap moment. Final semester of nursing school. I was in my team leading/ advanced care rotation. I was assigned 5 patients. One of my patients was going for a bronchoscope to have a biopsy for probable lung cancer. I had just finished report and decided to check him first, since he was scheduled to go early. Walked in his room to find him dead. No heart beat, no breathing. I hit the code blue button and jump on the bed and start CPR. Ironically, I had been a CPR instructor for about 6 years then. As I’m waiting for the code team to assemble and take over, another student, first year, walks into the room, screams, then runs out. My nursing instructor had arrived now and I quickly told her to go after the other student. The code team came and though we coded him for a long time, he didn’t survive. I found out later that the student was his granddaughter and she was just coming by to check on him and encourage him before his procedure. I felt awful when I heard this. Can’t imagine routinely checking on someone to find them being resuscitated.

[@DrawciaGleam02]

Oh no!!!!!!

[@jessh5310]

Every time I go to hospital it is a " Oh crap" moment for some poor doctor. I had 3 kidneys, 2 livers and crazy pipe connections. Even shoulder repair work got a audience. Wrongly positioned blood vessels and tendons. Sorry doctors....

[@dawnbunten4853]

The redhead thing is so true. My husband has red hair and has woken up in the middle of surgery before. He has to get more than the max amount of pain meds

[@mustwereallydothis]

How can anything signed under those conditions possibly be considered legally binding? He was in absolute agony, exhausted and heavily drugged.

[@mustwereallydothis]

Oh, and he was also not of legal age in most countries. I wonder if he even bothered to consult a lawyer

[@Fakenamelance]

It wouldn't, any lawyer, even one whose sole education was KZbin videos, could tear through that like wet toilet paper. Normal waivers are already fairly weak, one that was signed under such circumstances would be overridden with ease.

[@blackosprey2219]

Yeahhhh that is a textbook "voidable due to lack of capacity" situation right there. You probably wouldn't even have to go to court to get that settled.

[@tatkkyo9911]

A release signed while high on meds is worthless

[@slc1161]

Oh crap moment was me as the patient. Critical care nurse. Was supposed to have routine cataract surgery. Already in the OR getting sedated, and thank God, my surgeon was on top of things. I had to get a special order lens because my vision is so bad. Turns out they ordered the wrong lens at the hospital. I’d never seen this surgeon ever blow up until then. He literally was ready to cut my eye open. Second oh crap moment. Working a cardiac arrest in the ER, trauma patient. All of a sudden another nurse started wheezing and collapses on the floor in respiratory arrest. She was having a latex allergic reaction. You can develop it from repeated exposure to latex. So we had to run another code on my colleague. She survived. Trauma died, unfortunately. Third oh crap moment. 85 year old poor guy from a nursing home. Developed what is called Fornier’s gangrene. His scrotum and testicles had rotted away from gas gangrene. We got him after surgery. His testes were completely uncovered because all the skin and tissue had to be removed. The smell! Absolutely the worst thing I’ve smelled in my 40 + years as a nurse. Much like the perirectal abscess story. We all loaded peppermint oil in our masks. It didn’t help. We couldn’t spend more than ten minutes each because it was so bad. We had his door pulled shut but the whole unit, 16 beds, stunk of this man’s gangrene. We had peppermint oil in every room, in every mask. Nothing helped. We couldn’t close the critical care unit, so we had to just deal with it. Fortunately most of the patients in the unit were sedated and ventilated. He remained alive for another week until sepsis overwhelmed him. Fourth oh crap moment. Homeless bilateral amputee with huge crater of a bedsore on his tailbone. Think you can see the bone and tissue, as well as pus and maggots. Got him as a cardiac arrest from ER. He’s on a ventilator and knocked out. Turned him on his side to assess the bedsore from prolonged sitting in a wheelchair. Started irrigating a ton of maggots using peroxide when bags with white powder start falling out, like the bags that are sold with illegal drugs. He had packed this crater with about a kilo and a half of cocaine. We had to dig all this stuff out and turn over to the police.

[@AlexandriaFranklin-xv6rp]

All I can say to all that is WOW. Especially that last one, like dude you have a hole in your body caused by dead flesh and maggots and you pack it with bags of cocaine? Dude absolutely did not care.

[@gaelstrarai]

Oh god.....

[@e.e.strickland4654]

Not a doctor, I’m the patient. I’m pretty confident my “oh crap” is now in books, and you’ll see why! I have a bone disease in my wrist, one that doesn’t get better. Like ever. No exaggerating, I had a dying bone. Because of this I was having a radial shortening (an arm bone was pushing on my dying bone). So, in the surgery, one of the two arm bones you have (the thicker one) is being cut into two pieces, one bit is sawed down, and they’re put back together and held in place with hardware to grow back into one bone. Afterwards I had one cast, it’s checked again, and then another cast. My surgery was in January and I got the final cast off in June or July. It was an airtight cast and I live in Arizona (where our summers can be as hot as 120°F and can start as early as May). I was itching that thing like there was no tomorrow and everyone just brushed it off because of course it’s itchy. They take the cast off… my doctor’s assistant literally said “oh… my… god!” and ran out of the room. She tried to get the doctor in but he was seeing another patient and basically said “take a photo and show me later!” My cast went from my knuckles to two inches below my elbow. The entire top of my arm was caked in such a bad heat rash that it was the texture of reptile scales. Around my suture was an allergic reaction to the medical tape I was told I was allergic to right before going into surgery. An allergic reaction so bad it looked like a cartoon witch’s boil covered face. For those who don’t know: heat rashes look like chicken pox. They’re harmless little red bumps but itch like a mofo. They go away when left alone… when there’s air flow. All of this for a surgery that failed before December even hit. So in May of the next year I’m getting a PRC (they remove the entire lower tier of your wrist’s bones). I’m in a different city, different building, in fact everything but who my dr was is different. I’m in pre-op, apparently the first to be seen, and there’s two nurses (one man, one woman) and they’re just chilling with me before I get taken back. Because I’m the only one back there, they start asking about why I’m in there. I tell them about my disease and what happened with the heat rash from the first surgery. Never seen these people in my life, but both say, in unison, “THAT WAS YOU?!?!?!” Remember that photo my doctor asked for? It’s apparently been making some rounds. And I assume it’s for all the wrong reasons because he now 100% refuses to cast my arm ever again, even if I break anything in this arm 😂 I’m confident if they could, they would’ve bypassed “oh crap” and gone straight to “oh 💩!” Everyone who brushed off my arm itching sure stayed quiet after that!!!

[@wolfwise1135]

The Friday before the surgeon goes on vacation is a real thing. There are studies done showing that patients who had surgery on Friday have worse outcomes than those done earlier in the week.

[@nicholaschelm]

Not a surgeon but I had brain surgery done less than a decade ago. My neurosurgeon was an amazing doctor from Milan and did my procedure to alleviate brain pressure due to a chiari type 2 malformation. Surgery went off without a hitch, I woke up in ICU with a splitting headache, and went home after 2 days. Months later at my post surgery appointment, my neurosurgeon proceeds to tell me that during the procedure, my brain was pulling up my spinal cord and he was making sure that my brain didn't pull too much during the first hour of surgery. In short, if my doctor didn't have a mental "Oh crap!"moment to immediately stop my spinal cord from being pulled, I would have been paralyzed from the neck down. Again, this is 3 months post-op that he's telling me all of this... ... My family sent him and his staff Christmas cards and Starbucks cards that year until he retired last year

[@somethinunameit637]

31:32 not a doc but have some in my family. They told me that a patient is much calmer when receiving a painful treatment if they tell the patient what to expect. "it's gonna hurt like a 🤬 but it will feel better when it's healed" just makes the patient have a higher pain tolerance

[@Sammy888]

I always thought that surgery could get messy, but I had no idea it could get as bad as some of the stories from the video. There's no way I'd physically or mentally have what it takes to do this line of work.

[@richardherndon451]

Why did I start this while eating lunch? I wrote this while only on the eye story. It go worse.

[@GiordanDiodato]

Story 13 aka Swamps of Dagobah?

[@richardherndon451]

@@GiordanDiodato yes

[@boostues]

im drawing whle listening and stopped before asking out loud "why is the swamps of degobah here?"

[@mildlysinful]

as a central supply worker, I've never seen peppermint oil in our department, but we keep a lot of mastisol

[@only1one1me]

Story 32: That’s so dirty that they had OP sign a liability release wager while they’re drugged up.

[@loganroufs9705]

I think she can still sue because she was in an altered state and legally cannot give legal consent

[@RedK5]

@@loganroufs9705but isn’t it too late for that

[@jesarablack1661]

@@loganroufs9705 And was under 18, yeah all that paperwork has no legal weight, it was purely a scare tactic

[@jordanr.2120]

I'm surprised the OP of story 28 didn't know that phantom appendix pain can sometimes show up on the opposite side even when the appendix is in the normal place. That would be the more likely explanation for someone complaining of appendix pain on the left side than all the organs being reversed would be.

[@roryqpotter8242]

I got the parts of my reproductive system that caused periods removed in November. The “oh shit” moment happened as they were prepping me and the anesthesiologist was going through everything I needed pre-op, including the clotting agent I hadn’t received yet to keep me from bleeding out on the table. Mom caught that and ten minutes later, I got my clotting agent. Everything was smooth sailing from there… except that the surgeon realized my clotting factor was in OVERDRIVE post-op. My usual factor was 35%, and I tested at 234% post-op.

[@leokoogle3055]

imagine having your gums nicked at the dentist and you end up dying from it 💀 that's fckn crazy dawg

[@s.a.munknown4300]

Oof. I also started to become conscious during my wisdom teeth removal. I was in and out for a few minutes. They had to cut two of my teeth in half. All I remember is crying and kind of making a pitiful whining noise and the dentist wiping away my tears and trying to comfort me. Not fun but at least I dont have to get my wisdom teeth removed a second time. And luckily I don't really remember what the pain felt like

[@kandycane94]

My little girl's a red head and has the highest pain tolerance ever, but if she is in pain, she has to have more than the recommended amount (according to hospital doctors) found this out after a broken bone 🙃

[@lcoq19]

My son's a ginger and I was soo worried about the redhead gene for anesthesia resistance when he had dental surgery under general anesthesia to remove 4 teeth he broke off at the gums when he was a little over a year old and fell running with a toy truck. He's speech-delayed and was just a couple weeks shy of 4 and he couldn't really talk enough to say if anything wasn't okay at that time. He did just fine though, and they didn't say he had any issues. The kid has the craziest pain tolerance I've ever seen though. The next day, you'd never even know he'd had surgery. I gave him pain meds for a few days anyway, just in case, but he never seemed like he was hurting at all. He's basically Superman. 😊

[@s.h.6858]

Surgery story: my mother had the lens replacement surgery. They told her no drink or food. She followed it. THEY have her pills and water just before the surgery. And, of course, she threw up during it. Not always the patient's fault.

[@unknowngamer37415]

This was not what I should have picked to listen to before lunch.😂

[@ayoisha4609]

This is what I'm watching while having lunch🤗

[@ayoisha4609]

This is what I'm watching while having lunch🤗

[@sandrawm_]

We need more doctor stories

[@simonederobert1612]

Retired from almost 40 years first as a nurse on Ortho/Neuro with flashbacks to my own toddler ortho surgeries, then as an RN on a Tertiary Care center in L&D with high-risk patients referred from all over the state, then as a Certified Nurse Midwife in various practices. Boy, did these 'OH CR*P' moments ring true! Some of which were - Been There, Done That moments. Glad I am now retired.

[@GhostBear3067]

First story: it used to be printed in the labor and delivery section of paramedic textbooks "it is bad form to drop the baby".

[@indigowulf]

Story 13; good that they quarantined the area. If you think about it- you smell things by your nose gathering particles from the air and analyzing them.... which means if you can smell it, you're breathing it into your lungs. Every patient in every operating room on that floor that night got some of her infection in their wounds, if their doctors could smell it. Gross.

[@PenumbralBehemoth]

RE:story 6... I had a foley last year. the idea that the catheter was misplaced is HORRIFYING good god i genuinely pity that person.

[@RedHeadForester]

I got the perfect advert at the perfect time. 😂 During the catheter story, just as the catheter is about to be removed... 🎵"Today this could beee, the greatest day of our lives!"🎵 Had me cackling so hard I went into a coughing fit!

[@painta76]

Pretty sure i saw the perianal abcess and there not being any peppermint oil on a medical drama.

[@natashacoffey5227]

When I was about 23 my doctors had a lot of oh shit moments one when they miss diagnosed my gallbladder, literally going to shit and becoming septic and then again when they put me down for the gallbladder removal, and finding out how septic it was, it literally exploded on them and the fact that I kept waking up because I was Hard to put to sleep to say the least they were so concerned about me. They kept me in there after surgery for like three days.

[@pupdawn]

Ah, the swamps of dagobah. Classic

[@labyrinthgirl17]

Years ago, I have a feeling that the surgeons had an oh crap moment when they opened my mom up and found that part of her bowels had ruptured from blockage caused by a basketball sized tumor growing from her ovary.

[@Mrs.Fezziwig]

33:39 Well, if that doesn't sound like a missed Ehlers Danlos Syndrome diagnosis, I don't know what does. Repeat dislocations after a primary traumatic event in any joint with the ease of relocating it yourself whether medically or self hit-and-miss-find-what-works taught screams hypermobility. EDS is the main diagnosis with sub-types depending on what combination of genetic defects on collagen genes you have but all of them mean tendons and ligaments don't spring back like normal people. Like a rubber band that eventually gets loose and stays that way, the same happens in the joints of people with EDS. The only real treatment is painkillers and physio, cutting and shortening the affected ligaments is just putting a plaster on a kitchen knife stab wound.

[@gardenofsn5955]

I have an appointment with my doc soon and I'm going to be asking about how one might test for EDS! I'd always known I was flexible, and I never did find a way to actually *stretch* at the gym because it feels like none of it strains my muscles. Only recently did I hear about springy skin being a potential symptom, and I was like "... I thought that was normal". Compared with my spouse a couple weeks ago, and his hand freaked me out because I can't just pinch the skin, it's like.... all his meat under there. I'm obese, also, so it's not that I'm thin and have the extra skin! I know the likelihood of it being a form of EDS is super duper low, but I've been searching for answers to my chronic pain since I was 13/14 and I'm not stopping now!

[@Mrs.Fezziwig]

@@gardenofsn5955 Well, look up the Beighton Score is the first thing. It's not used as a diagnostic tool anymore but is still an indicator that you can present to your GP or Primary physician I think you call it in the USA. Then there's the tedious but important journalling your symptoms. Yes, it's a pain in the arse however your doctor is more likely to take you seriously if you can present them with evidence. No one is going to spend so much effort unless they are in pain and want to be heard. It's as easy as listing the date, how tired you felt upon waking on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being 'I want to cry because everything is too much effort' and 5 being 'someone slipped me coke in my sleep and I feel like I can fly', then your pain level on the same kind of scale in the morning and then before bed, with any acute pain events such as a sprain or bad twinge or sublux. Also add in any times you got a 'head rush', like if you stand then have to pause because you feel like you might faint and have to wait for it to pass. Tell them to refer you to a Rheumatologist. I stress the word tell because asking will allow for them to try and gaslight you into believing there's nothing wrong, just because your blood tests, CT scans and MRIs come back clear. You mention it started at 13/14, which is bang on the normal time the symptoms begin to be more noticeable; I got a horrifically painful back at 14 that was my first indicator. There's no definitive test bar a genetic one to clarify which type of EDS you have and from what I've heard it's almost always refused by insurance so you have to pay out of pocket. I only know that from American friends as mine was done by the NHS. Sorry if none of this is what you hoped to hear. It's a literal battle of the wills to get that diagnosis between you and the frontline doctor unless they happen to have heard of it. In my case I got an appointment with the only GP in my practice after seeing the other 5 and being fobbed off and I was willing to be arrested if necessary because I wasn't leaving until someone gave me something for the pain. That got the attention of the doctor I was due to see, so he promised he'd give my records a thorough review and then booked me in to see him again in a week, and gave me low dose Tramadol which was like a miracle to me as I slept the night through. It turned into hell so avoid that drug at all costs. Feel free to comment on one of my silly home videos if you want to talk more. I do have Insta too just let me know 😊

[@Just1Nora]

My birth was a bit like story one, but I was extremely premature and Mom's second pregnancy. They had been trying to stop labor all day and finally rushed my mom to the hospital the next town over b/c they had a NICU. They get my mom settled and by a stroke of luck her doctor was sleeping upstairs. The nurse let her know when the doctor was there and scrubbing up and told her she could probably start thinking about pushing soon. This was in ye olden days when the table had a detachable end to remove or drop down to then put in the stirrups. The nurse was just getting ready to detach the table and my mom relaxed, not really even pushing, and Dad said I just kinda squirted out onto the nurses arms like a football pass. By the time the doctor came in I was already on the warmer being dried, suctioned, getting oxygen, etc by like 5 nurses. I was born 3 lbs but quickly dropped a pound and had to stay in the nicu for 6 wks putting it back on to go home. You could hold me in one hand! My first onesie came off a babydoll because nothing else remotely fit. Even the special premie diapers were huge and instead of a receiving blanket I was wrapped in a washcloth. I'm sure the nurse who caught me was sweating bullets about that! 😅

[@Franimus]

Never ever lie to your doctor, lawyer, or priest!

[@ashaduplessis2772]

Why would you lie to a priest? He can neither bless nor curse you that is GOD'S job alone. People who go to confession are there to ADMIT things

[@Franimus]

@@ashaduplessis2772 If you don't make a good (honest) confession, then the absolution is invalid, so you went to confession for nothing.

[@wonderlandeldemonanastasi]

Absolutely lie to your priest. Your safety is more important than adhering to a religion. Lie to survive, and hang on until you can escape the religious environment to live your life freely as you truly are. There are people outside the religion who don't think you're a monster just for existing. It gets better.

[@Franimus]

@@wonderlandeldemonanastasi No, that's stupid. I'm not talking about cults. You have no idea what religion or faith actually is.

[@Just1Nora]

Tell your doctor and lawyer everything, and the cops only what they need to know.

[@s.h.6858]

Not a red head but hypermobility (possibly undiagnosed EDS). Pain killers and anesthesia either don't work or work oddly on me. Really hard to get doctors to take it seriously.

[@AJ_TheGoof]

not me eating while watching this

[@KingBYummy95]

Poor kid with the dislocated shoulder

[@meltedfroyo6979]

How dare y'all make me hear the Swamps of Dagobah story CASUALLY 😭

[@iluvspongebob1234]

UnderSparked: A lot of medical words in here. I did my best. Me: …I sometimes forget that this stuff isn’t actually common knowledge and that most people don’t know what these words mean.

[@gardenofsn5955]

Yeah one of the stories early on was going over things like they were on ELI5 and I was like "don't... people know this?" Guess you never know though!

[@Eevee_133]

You just had to remind me about the “swamps of dagobah” story. Thanks…

[@docE3885]

Wow the penicetmy one is crazy I was a Army medic for 8 years and never even heard about anyone with penile cancer until this morning when I found out my stepfather just passed from penis cancer that even after having his penis removed spread to his throat and was fatal. He died this morning and hearing about it the same day is crazy what a horrible way to go.

[@ayoisha4609]

I'm sorry for your loss

[@ayoisha4609]

I'm sorry for your loss

[@IsYitzach]

Story 46, the sides of a triangle are usually called legs.

[@thatcherbuck]

This one was so good. So many great (and terrible) stories

[@deredd04]

Show of hands. Who else was caught off guard by the chicken story?

[@StormyxBoi]

I was terrified when they said euthanized then i died when i found out it was a chicken 😂

[@Lavendeer201]

🤚

[@deredd04]

@@StormyxBoi yeah. And you can tell the narrator felt the same until the reveal. I was literally like “god dammit. Got me too”

[@AnyoneMining]

why am I listening to these? I have a vivid imagination and felt like I'm gonna pass out while listening to the last story. Still very interesting to listen to though.

[@SventheCrusader]

Oh my word, it's the Swamps of Dagobah! I'm so happy

[@lightdreamer_]

OMG, this is the swamps of Dagobah thread

[@Guidingsonar]

All the talk about amethstiga (rip spelling) yet doctors refuse to believe my mom when she explains what they WHERE DOING WITH THE SURGURY CAUSE IT DIDN'T LAST EVEN HALF WAY THOUGH. These stories actually restore some faith in doctors cause how BAD the ones in my city are.. especially ER doctors... I will never forgive those brats for giving us an unknown sickness all because my mom finally gave in and went to the ER like her doctor was pleading her to.

[@noangel888]

The perirectal abscess is the best. Just the way the narrator told and the OP wrote it. Sounds like an audio book

[@LoveValentineXO]

That's "swamps of dagobah" story just. Kept. GOING.

[@drakhan6287]

My sister had a colonoscopy when she was about 9. She was out for 12 hours, 10 more then she should have been. The doctors were panicing because NOTHING was waking her up, mum asked a doctor if she could try something. He must have though "what the hell, nothing else is working" and told my mum go-ahead. My mother, not a weak woman by any means, uncovered my sisters feet, reared her hand back and gave my sister a full stenght slap on her foot. Apparently my sister sat bult upright, nearly giving the doctor a heart attack. She also had an severe allergic reaction to her meds after, her through closed in about 30 minutes, so the doctors must have though she was cursed or something. This isn't even her only "oh crap" medical moment, just one of the funnier ones to me.

[@catwithabat7163]

I feel bad for whatever poor bastard had to cleanup story 13

[@davidshay4233]

Think humans giving birth is awful look into hyenas and how they give birth

[@jorgefreitas5983]

videos with good stories and a full screen... can't ask for anything better. Thanks :)

[@fmleverynameistakenx]

my first "oh crap" moment was when i accessed a port with another medstudent and the patient next to us went into arrest. turns out, the nurse did an oopsie and gave him potassium as a bolus. patient went to icu am came back delirious as hell, don't know if he made it (he was old and had colon cancer). still think about that guy and how better communication could have prevented all this.

[@TheColorHopeIsBlue]

RN here. At the time of this story I was just past my freshman year of college, volunteering at a famous children’s hospital in the US. I was escorting a mom down to the cafeteria. Next to me at the elevators was a family with a kid waiting to go up to the GI suite. Suddenly I heard retching and something like “Oh, blood!” I turned and saw that the kid had vomited bright red blood onto the floor. His parents freaked out. He somehow plopped himself down into a chair behind him and was clearly looking and feeling faint (he was so pale his skin was practically yellow). I shakily reassured him he was going to be okay and then ran into the cardiac suite waiting room just behind us and yelled for the receptionists to call the in-hospital emergency line. I was so panicked that I forgot I had that number on the back of my nametag and a phone with which to call it. Thankfully within a matter of minutes there were rapid response docs coming from everywhere to assist the kid. When I came back up from the cafeteria after dropping that mom off, the RRT had the kid laying on his back on the floor. I don’t know what the cause of his hematemesis was or the outcome, but it scared me so badly that I was shaking for the rest of the shift. I felt incredibly stupid that I did not just call the emergency line myself but my brain just stopped working and all I could think was “Get help.”

[@Yhelta]

Surgeon missed a golden opportunity to say “Guess you’re the top now “

[@LavastormSW]

Love your narration. These are great to put on in the background while doing other stuff!

[@TheAverageNerd]

Patient here. Ate some bad lunch meat so thought i had food poisoning since it mathed out with everything i was feeling. Well 3 days later i can still barely keep anything down so i go to the hospital, they ask normal questions but can't figure anything out. Decide to do a scan to see if anything is wrong internally to find nothing, and my apendix is hiding. At that point it's decided i go in for exploratory surgery where my apendix is found hiding behind my liver... ruptured. I can only imagine the "oh shit" moment there. Thankfully it seemed to happen while i was in the hospital and there where no complications during recovery, but if i had waited 1 more day that would be a totally different story

[@pippagrey9633]

Many years ago while at college, I was a unit clerk on the heme/onc floor of the university's hospital, a large 1000 bed place. One day I was at my desk doing paperwork and I heard a code called for my floor. Got the story later from the nurse. She was in a patient's room, doing her beginning-of-the-shift assessment, and couldn't get a pulse. The patient was sitting up and talking, though not very coherently. The nurse decided better safe than sorry, so she called the code, which was just as well because the patient was indeed in full code by the time the code team arrived. I don't know if that would be an actual "Oh crap" moment, but it was certainly a "wtf?" one. That someone could be upright and coherent while their heart wasn't working.... We all figured the nurse had come in at exactly the right moment to catch the initial seconds of the cardiac arrest.

[@whitearabianhorses]

I’m sorry, but your expression of, “. . . and there was no Yoda.” makes me smile. I know the whole thing was awful, but the way you tell it is great!

[@ladymorrigan5950]

When I had a cataract surgery last year I was sedated but not unconscious. That’s the way it’s done. I could still see things. At some point I moved my eye and everyone, doctors and nurses, freaked out telling me not to move repeatedly and loudly. Everything turned out fine.

[@dragonrage122]

if he's 17 at the time... would the signed papers even be binding?

[@crazycorgiladyus7418]

Unless 17 is considered an adult in the country where that happened, definitely not. Even then, the validity could be easily disputed in court due to the fact that they were in an altered state at the time and therefore couldn’t have known or understood what they were signing.

[@deborahoates6893]

Story 24, sorry to out do you but I was sick since birth. Doctors never could figure out why. At 10 years old, I was admitted for testing. They found my gallbladder probably never functioned correctly and was full of gallstones. Spent a week in the hospital after surgery because this was done in 1968.

[@AuntieCreed]

13. Dear God!! This is why I could never be a nurse

[@andromededp5316]

Foley catheters are so annoying, I had one for 6 days after a surgery and for some reason they wouldn’t use a catheter bag with it so we had to go to the restroom and open a valve at the end of the catheter to empty our bladders. I was so glad when they finally removed it

[@kristahathaway9308]

Yeah the poop one going everywhere that's what happens when infection and poop come together it's nasty it's worse than the smell death

[@ShowierData9978]

#13 WHAT

[@mikumikudancex3]

pregnancy is so scary. like holy crap.

[@laurenjones9924]

I couldn’t imagine the level of pain some of these people were in. Like the mother who had bad kidneys.

[@chezperky]

I’m pretty sure Oh crap is the last thing you’d want to hear in the OR and now we have an entire hour of it

[@whatintheheck4692]

I heard my doctor’s oh crap moment. I was delivering my twins via c-section and I heard the doctor call out “I need a coagulant to stop this bleeding right now” …3 minutes later the doctor yells “WHERE IS THAT COAGULANT??” The next day, the doctor came into my room and explained that while I lost a lot of blood, I didn’t quite need a transfusion, so that’s good.

[@winnerwannabe9868]

Parents go in for check and find out I'm choking myself to death on my umbilical cord.

[@sydneyfairbairn3773]

I have some Scottish redhead genes. I never lost consciousness during my wisdom tooth removal surgery. As soon as the doctor was done I hopped off the chair and walked out with my mom. The doctor asked why I did not tell him I was conscious. I told him I felt no pain so I thought that was how it was to proceed.

[@beverlymoran2010]

Dont..... I repeat DONT eat while watching this I almost puked, and I have a pretty strong stomach.. Omg-

[@leshyaedawnfire]

First story: The parents must be hardcore fans of The Addams Family Values.

[@gardenofsn5955]

LMAO "It's a boy that we definitely didn't almost drop! What do you wanna name him" ":) Pugsly" ".... OK!"

[@el_stupido_gaming]

I don't think I should be eating popcorn and watching this

[@shotjon2957]

I salute those janitorial who cleaned up the “swamps of dagobah” The smell was probably MUCH worse.

[@ipanesm]

the surgeon of story 13 really was honestly incredible, if the story is half as horrible as it was told, he, being at the forefront of it all really kept at it and held it in enough to do his job, respect

[@catpoke9557]

The Swamps of Dagobah story is a good example of why you shouldn't assume someone is faking their pain. She was DEFINITELY in a lot of pain with a whole tunnel of necrosis in her digestive tract.

[@Invidia1988]

Not an surgeon story but - The "swamps of Dagobah" story is precisely the reason I keep a bottle of peppermint in my homes now. I've had to use that bottle during one of my jobs where traffic control is the grunt work for road construction. I got sent to a sewage treatment facility they were doing a trench in the asphalt that needed replacing. This was during covid times so we had reasons to have masks. When I learned where I was being sent to, I told my work "I need to go home for something." I grabbed that bottle and doused my mask. It barely cut the scent of that location. I was sent to was equal to Labyrinth's bog of eternal stench. There are certain areas of the facility where it is "less" bad. But I was outside their sludge room... and near the skimmers... where it is more pungent... Peppermint oil will make you cough alot because of the saturation of oil to your lungs, I had to reapply the oil like 9 times.. But that story makes me keep a bottle in my car somewhere for "just in case unholy smells." I went home after my shift cursed my work for sending me there and told them to send me chasing a saw truck instead of THAT. Treat your flaggers with respect people. They literally experience the brunt of everything.

[@Laundrey1]

Natural redhead here. I learned while waking up during wisdom teeth surgery that I am resistant to meds. To this day, I remember the nurse freaking out as she realized I had woken up. I’m also quite small. I’m barely over 5 foot and weigh around 100-110 lbs - at the time I wasn’t even 5 foot and I weighed in the 90-lb range. I have to take 1,200mg of ibuprofen and hope and pray it works because I’ve been prescribed 800mg since 14. Not only am I resistant to pain meds and anesthesia, I have a degenerative genetic condition that causes pain, so that’s just cruel. Worst though was after I had my daughter and they gave me the max dose of local anesthetic and I felt them stitching me up the whole time. Epidural didn’t fully work either. Once had a filling about 2-3 years ago and it only gave me temporary Bell’s Palsy without numbing anything. My dentist is my friend so I told her to go ahead with it and we came up with hand motions to do when I needed a break. Not only am I resistant, I also metabolize anesthesia super quickly. It’s great. I had 5 surgeries in 1 year and had to talk to the anesthesiologist on giving me more meds than normal despite my petite stature.

[@GemCandy]

The chicken reveal story and your reaction to it made me laugh XD

[@EvonneSol]

Not a surgeon, but this did bring back an old, foggy memory from when I had a horrific bladder infection and woke up mid-procedure. I don't remember much but I do remember the look on the doctor's face before they put me under again, clearly he wasn't anticipating having a 16-17 year old wake up on the table. I couldn't feel much of anything but I did start talking to him.